Fell to #2 in Japan on the Oricon sales chart.
Stayed at #1 in Japan on the Billboard Hot 100 (5th week).

But on the Oricon charts, it was #1 again for downloads, which broke the record for most weeks atop that particular chart. And on Billboard's Global 200 Charts, it's now #16 including the U.S., and #6 excluding the U.S.

Also, on Spotify, it's #1 in Hong Kong and #2 in Taiwan, and of course, it's still #1 there as well in Japan::

HK - https://spotifycharts.com/regional/hk/daily/latest
TW - https://spotifycharts.com/regional/tw/daily/latest
JP - https://spotifycharts.com/regional/jp/daily/latest

YouTube views of the official Music Clip are nearing 60 million as well after six weeks. And the First Take version (live) is over 20 million views after five weeks.

Last Thursday was the first day under 100,000 at the usual locations, today (Tuesday) makes the second. So it got to 27 straight days above that mark, and is up to 31/33 days above the mark.

Just for comparison, I think the old record (since 2015 anyway) was 4 consecutive days above that mark unless Weathering With You got more than four over the Obon Festival week or if Your Name. got over 4 days if that year's Silver Week (mid-September) lined up correctly to allow it over the weekdays. Either way, if something did managed 5 days or one or two more at some point, nothing has come remotely close to 27.

And note: It has yet to have a single day below 100,000 admissions. Thursday will probably remain above 100,000, too, so it's likely to achieve 39 consecutive days over 100,000 admissions. Next Tuesday will probably go below 100,000 admissions (as the film will be nearing 20 million admissions...). That's obviously a record, and a new record by a massive margin. I'm doubtful anything has even managed half that many days in the past. I could see Spirited Away or Frozen doing it over Obon Festival or Golden Week, respectively, but chances are they didn't get more than 10-15 straight days tops above 100,000 admissions.

Hell, you might not even be able to find any film anywhere in the world that has managed to sell over 100,000 admissions for 39-consecutive days, other than Titanic, Jurassic Park (?), E.T. (or something older) in the U.S..

Looking at some U.S. films, there are more recent ones like The Force Awakens (barely), The Dark Knight (barely), Black Panther, Incredbles 2 (why is it so easy to forget this film was so big?), Frozen/Frozen II, Jurassic World. And probably a few more that managed 39 (or more) consecutive days above 100,000 admissions there. I think Endgame's 39th day exactly fell under 100,000 admissions there.

But the point still stands. It takes the biggest U.S. blockbusters or super leggy films from the pre-2000. 39-consecutive days above 100,000 admissions is bonkers in a market a quarter the size of the U.S. market, and I guess there's the very slight chance it could push that to 45 days if it holds well enough next week.

I know China is typically a frontloaded market, but do they have any films that achieved 39-consecutive (or more) days over 100,000 admissions? Key word being consecutive.

It’s unfortunate that DOM doesn’t provide admits directly, but several movies probably got 40+ days of 100k admits last year alone. Aladdin and Frozen II were above 1M in gross for over 40 days.

However, considering Japan’s population is almost one third, it’s seems crazier to me than maybe any DOM admits streak.

Yeah, there looks to be many with 39/40+ days above 100,000 admissions in the U.S. Most films in that $400 million+ territory, or leggy $300 million+ films. Of course, most of these, if not all, either had summer dailies or some big holiday period (namely Christmas) to boost them.

It'll be interesting to see how many days above 100,000 admissions Demon Slayer does end up with. I'm guessing 60-70 overall, maybe a bit more.

Few films I can find with Consecutive days over 100k admits.

Dangal 49 days in China in 2017.
Wolf Warrior 2 49 days in China in 2017.
Baahubali 2 48 days in India in 2017.

Japan population is 1/3rd but release size is 1/10-1/13th which makes it tougher for USA to do so.

today the drop still seems very low (around 15%), this film manages to hold up really well despite its colossal weekends

Okay, posting this now before anyone reads it somewhere and freaks out: Tokyo raised its COVID alert level today (going in effect on Thursday).

Note: This is NOT a lockdown or stay-at-home order. The alert level serves as a "warning" to citizens of rising cases and/or continuingly concerning figures. Unless things get bad, bad, I don't think the government is going to go that far as they've just begun to bounce back to pre-pandemic levels in regard to exports and certain economic aspects. Not to mention suicide rates are way up and outpace COVID related deaths now.

As for its effect on the box office, we just need to wait and see. It's all speculation right now until something presents itself, and just needless worry. I don't think it'll have much of any impact unless cases really begin to climb, as they've been consistently around 1,500/1,600 or so for a week now, with Tokyo in the 200-300 range (though they may break 300 in the next report considering the level increase), and it hasn't impacted the box-office (at least in any noticeable way).

For further assurance that this, at the moment, won't have much impact (and definitely not result in a shutdown anytime soon): Tokyo raised its level to the highest back in July (and lowered it back in September), just like they will again tomorrow, and guess what? Theaters had already reopened in June and even expanded their capacity in mid-July. And the July-August box-office was quite good.

So, again, don't be concerned with this until there is actually a noticeable impact at the box-office, or if cases go way up (Tokyo itself is still below July/August levels) which could prompt further restrictions. In my opinion right now, if cases grow considerably, theaters may go back to 50% capacity every day of the week for awhile.

Theaters haven't been a target of this, as no clusters have been traced back to them; it's much more aimed at nightclubs and restaurants being open late.

If this happen, can we expect stronger legs?

Coronvirus vaccine are being tested we should be positive hope that demon slayer outgross spirited away

Presumably, yeah. Legs for most of the July/August releases that performed under the 50% capacity restrictions were very good to great. If it happens, opening weekends are more limited n their potential, but holds tend to be stronger.

The only downside really, as the July/August releases performed well (including producing a blockbuster), is that family/children films don't perform well at 50% capacity since theaters use a checkerboard pattern seating arrangement, preventing couples, families, or just groups of people in general, from seating either side-by-side or front-to-back. The only films that have really underperformed since June have been the family/children films as this makes it really hard for families (parents) to take younger children who'd either be diagonal to them or two seats away.

But this would only be the case IF they go back to 50% capacity. I wouldn't expect this to happen soon unless cases go up a lot more, or remain at their current levels for more than another week or two. Aeon Cinemas has continued to be at 50% capacity, even on the weekends, so it wouldn't affect them whatsoever. Toho Cinemas and all the other chains have various days of switching between 50% capacity to 100% capacity (in general, they're 50% on weekdays and 100% on weekends and special days), so they'd have to readjust back again.

Additionally, it was planned that the selling of food would be allowed again beginning December 1st (currently, and since September, only drinks are allowed in 100% capacity showings). It hasn't been changed as of this post, but that could be delayed further (probably should be).

If cinema all go back to 50%, chance of DS to beat SA remain the same or lower?

I think that covers the COVID situation as anything further is pretty much speculation at this point unless, as I said, there's a noticeable impact at the box office in terms of attendance in the coming days. Or if the government requests theaters go back to 50% capacity on the weekends. We're still a long way from any shutdowns (truly last option for the country right now), so don't be concerned about that for the immediate future unless cases really take off in the coming days/weeks.

Back to Wednesday: It's looking very good at the mid-day point. A sub-20% drop looks very likely, and it could be on track for just a ~15% decline.

It's 100% locked to beat Spirited Away as long as theaters are open, and by solid margin. Beating Spirited Away is no longer in question as long as they're open. It could maybe take a little longer IF theaters would to back to 50% capacity is all (over New Year versus on or before Christmas, for example).

Looking more, Frozen II had 47 consecutive days above 100k admits in USA.
Aladdin had 52 days which can be extended to 59 days if we had actual admits.
Frozen had 56 days consecutive days above 100k admits.

The hashtag 東京493人 is trending, the only thing worse (for business) than Government's alert is people are alerting themselves.

14% drop, around $2,4M-$2,5M today I think

Weekly Shonen Jump (The manga magazine in which Kimetsu no Yaiba was published) will have big news in issue 52, which is scheduled to be sold on the 28th/29th iirc, but since the issues leak online earlier the big news will probably be known as early as next monday..
Source: http://ryokutya2089.com/archives/38132

Usually this "big news" or "Super special news" means anime confirmed, but in the case of Kimetsu.. I don't know haha, new anime? new movie? a live action adaptation? a manga sequel?

I mean I have been thinking about it and Shueisha (the publisher) are dumb if they don't at least publish a sequel/spin-off now that they can milk the franchise BUT something tells me Gotoge might be one of those authors that takes too much care of his/her property and won't allow it (When you think about it she finished the best selling franchise in the world when it could have continued.. I haven't read it but tons of authors just pull stories out of their @sses when their titles become popular to extend their life cycles, Gotoge could have done the same but chose to end it in a high note).

Ehem.. going back to the movie-related stuff, basically I think next week we will know whether they will go all in with movie adaptations or there will be a second season of the TV show.. Unless the big news is something totally unexpected, as I say 90% of the time these "Big news" turn out to be anime related, the othe 10% is movie (as in live action) or play related.

Hmm... They recently announced the big Kimetsu anime anniversary event in February next year. I fee like that's going to be where all the big news are going to be at including the anime sequel announcement, the console game trailer and probably other stuff. It seems like Kimetsu won't have a strong presence at Jump Festa. (Most likely Aniplex wants to do everything) So, I don't know what this is going to be. The link speculates it to be movie BD release date, but isn't that super early?

Anyway, I agree with the potential manga news either sequel, prequel, spinoff or whatever. There is no way that Shueisha isn't doing everything in their power to create something new in the Kimetsu universe. There is so much money to be made. Live action movie is also always a possibility. I think it was recently trending in japanese twitter where they were guessing possible actors, but again I feel like this is something they would announce at the Kimetsu event.

Let's hope any live-action rumors stay rumors.

They went all-in in producing the two Attack on Titan live-action movies, and while than first one did fairly well (failing to turn profit in theaters alone though), the sequel collapsed as a result of how mediocre/poor they were.

The better received and performing live-action adaptations are typically those without much fantasy or sci-fi elements that require significant CGI and special effects.

Just finish adapting the series in animated form, be it more anime or more films.

I little less due to Ladies Day, but yet another great day.

Please be season 2 announcement

I mean some of the mega-hits of the last decade received live-action adaptations, Tokyo Ghoul, Kingdom, Assassination Classroom, and Attack on Titan, even FMA and BLEACH which were finished manga at the time got one, and those are titles that while huge in popularity in their respective years only had a fraction of the populiarity KnY has right now (Kingdom still being a huge seller and AoT... Not so much, but it still ranks top 10 iirc).

So it would be weirder for me if Kimetsu didn't get a live action than if it did.. But maybe no because they don't want people to get fatigued? I mean I think it could work as a trilogy of live action movies, of course, they would need to change the pace, but I think is doable and of course there would be money to be made, and what studio doesn't like money?

And yeah as you said I think the best adaptation of a manga I have seen is Rurouni Kenshin but that didn't require much CGI, I just thought of other good one Kaiji, I know some people would prefer the anime (Myself included) but it was pretty nice overall.